In a new blog post from PhishMe a recent IRS phishing scam is discussed. PhishMe has identified that the scam is a data-entry phishing attack, a classic tactic for stealing passwords and other credentials.
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In a new blog post from PhishMe a recent IRS phishing scam is discussed. PhishMe has identified that the scam is a data-entry phishing attack, a classic tactic for stealing passwords and other credentials.
You walk into a coffee shop and take a seat. While waiting for your coffee, you take out your smartphone and start playing a game you downloaded the other day. Later, you go to work and check your email in the elevator. Without you knowing, an attacker has just gained a foothold in your corporate network and is steadily infecting all your colleagues’ smartphones too.
In a new blog post from Ronnie Tokazowski, security researcher, PhishMe, a new phishing scam that employs a shortened Google URL and contains a malicious .zip file that leads to a variant of the Cryptowall ransomware, is discussed.
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July has seen 115 updates to a variety of Oracle products. Java has been the busiest with 20 vulnerabilities being addressed, the most severe of which is CVE-2014-4227, affecting Java v6, v7 and v8. The most critical vulnerabilities fixed by these patches would allow an attacker to take control of the machine that the software is running on - workstation or server.
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